Cerigo (island)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File
Misc 1, Cerigo - England, 1802 - 1803
File
Reference Code: GBR/3437/WMLK/4/1
Scope and Contents
N. B. The title by Leake is as inscribed on the cover but at the rear, the notebook has been inverted and a different travelogue recorded by him, beginning at Alexandria, continuing via Balbek, Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, then to Rhodes and on to Athens.
Includes pencil sketches of Mycenae’s Lion Gate and tholos tomb (Treasury of Atreus).
Cerigo is known today as Kythira.
Dates:
Other: 1802 - 1803
Item
The castle and town of Cerico and port of Cerico-Kaspali, 1940 - 1970
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30193B/2
Scope and Contents
This is reproduced from No. 20 of Edward Lear, 'Views in the Seven Ionian Islands' (London, 1863).
Dates:
1940 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Ionian Islands